Einat Wilf
Einat Wilf (Hebrew: עינת וילף, born 11 December 1970) is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Independence and the Labor Party.[1][2]
Einat Wilf | |
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Date of birth | 11 December 1970 |
Place of birth | Jerusalem, Israel |
Knessets | 18 |
Faction represented in Knesset | |
2010–2011 | Labor Party |
2011–2013 | Independence |
Biography
Einat Wilf was born in Jerusalem and raised in a Labor Zionist family. She studied at the Hebrew University Secondary School. She completed her military service as an Intelligence Officer in Unit 8200[3] with the rank of Lieutenant.[4] She then went to Harvard University, receiving a BA in government and fine arts, before earning an MBA from INSEAD in France, and subsequently a PhD in political science at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
Wilf married German journalist and television personality Richard Gutjahr in 2007. She gave birth to their son in 2010.[5]
Political and business career
Wilf served as a Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres,[7] a strategic consultant with McKinsey & Company[8] in New York City and a General Partner with Koor Corporate Venture Capital in Israel. Upon her return to Israel Wilf worked as a Senior Fellow with the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute and a weekly columnist for the daily newspaper Israel HaYom. Wilf also taught social entrepreneurship at Sapir College, as well as a frequent guest on Israeli radio and television talk shows and a member of the President's Conference Steering Committee.
In 2007, she ran for the presidency of the World Jewish Congress.[9] However, she withdrew before the actual vote, and Ronald Lauder was elected president.
A member of the Israeli Labor Party, Wilf was placed 39th on the party's list for the 2003 elections, but failed to win a seat.[10] She won fourteenth place on the party's list for the 2009 Knesset elections. Although Labor won only 13 seats, Wilf entered the Knesset on 10 January 2010 as a replacement for Ophir Pines-Paz,[11] who had retired from politics.[12] However, in January 2011 she was one of five MKs to leave the party to establish the new Independence party under the leadership of Ehud Barak.[13] She lost her Knesset seat in January 2013 when the party chose not to contest the elections.
Published works
- My Israel, Our Generation, BookSurge Publishing (2007), ISBN 1-4196-5913-8
- Back to Basics: The Road to Saving Israel's Education (at no extra cost), Yedioth Ahronot (April 2008)
- Global actors and global politics : the case of the World Jewish Congress campaign against the Swiss Banks (thesis, Cambridge 2008) Cambridge, UK.
- Symposium on Rabin's legacy, Fathom, Autumn 2015
- Winning the War of Words: Essays on Zionism and Israel, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (November 3, 2015), ISBN 978-1515072973
- Perry Anderson's House of Zion: A Symposium, Fathom, Spring 2016
- Telling Our Story: Essays on Zionism, the Middle East, and the Path to Peace, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 19, 2018), ISBN 978-1515072973
- The War of Return, Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir (2018), ISBN 978-9-655-66700-4
References
- "When It Comes to Defending Israel, Eloquent Explanations Aren't Enough". mosaicmagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
- "Einat Wilf | The Harry Walker Agency". Harry Walker Agency. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
- "Think About It: Parliamentary oversight of foreign policy". The Jerusalem Post. August 30, 2015.
- "Knesset Member, Einat Wilf". Knesset.
- Hoffman, Gil (13 December 2010). "Labor MK Einat Wilf gives birth to baby boy". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
- Wilf, Einat (2 April 2012). "Zionism: The Only Way Forward". The Daily Beast.
- "On working with Shimon Peres". Dr. Einat Wilf. 4 May 2007.
- "Einat Wilf". The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
- "Young reformer sets sights on making WJC more inclusive". The Jerusalem Post. May 30, 2007.
- "Candidates for the 16th Knesset". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Jan 9, 2003.
- "Knesset Members in the Eighteenth Knesset". Knesset.
- "Labor Stalwart Ophir Pines-Paz Leaves Knesset, Party and Politics". Haaretz. January 8, 2010.
- "Ehud Barak quits Israel's Labour Party". BBC News. 17 January 2011.
External links
- Official website
- The Best Explanation of Zionism and Israel
- Einat Wilf on the Knesset website